Classification of agricultural elements used in buildings

The study addressed the utilisation of agricultural elements and applied landscaping in buildings, as current research in the field of architecture is either absent or only tangentially related to the topic. The study aimed to classify the agricultural element in the building structure to provide a basis for further research in this area, to identify the main characteristics of agricultural elements and to establish their interaction with buildings. The study used analysis of literary and scientific sources, logical, decomposition, comparative analysis, graph-analytical method, formalisation, generalisation and abstraction, and induction. As a result of the interdisciplinary research, three main possible ways of distinguishing between agricultural elements and/or applied landscaping were identified. These are: “by purpose”, “by use model”, and “by location”. The classification of the studied buildings was conducted based on the aforementioned characteristics. The first category, “by purpose”, denotes the primary function of the agricultural element in the structure of the building and includes the following subtypes: commercial, social, and recreational elements. The second “by use model” category reflects a certain function of an agricultural component: for commercial purposes, it is the food production capacity; for recreation, its visual accessibility, and the number of people it can serve in the case of applied recreation. This category includes subclasses: citywide, district use, and in-building. The third category, “by location” denotes the location of agricultural or landscaping elements in the structure of the building and contains subclasses “in the structure of the plot”, “in the structure of the building”, and “in the structure of the apartment (floor)”. The practical value of this study is that the results complement the conceptual and terminological apparatus and can be used to create recommendations and guidelines for designing agricultural elements in the building